Hun Sen Quotes

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

You have to pick your battles on set.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

In India, nobody sues anybody.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

If we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

You don’t quit when you are in the middle of a conflict…. My job was not to have a fit and walk out. My job was to give the President my best advice.

Trust-based mediation assumes accumulated and at times intimate knowledge shared by both the mediator and disputants.

I had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to a settlement table after conflict and suffering.